Special Report: China’s parade sent ‘cognitive warfare’ messages, showcased new weapons

Special Report: China’s parade sent ‘cognitive warfare’ messages, showcased new weapons

by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2025 Real World News FPI / September 3, 2025 GeostrategyDirect.com By Richard Fisher On Sept. 3 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping hosted his fourth major military parade spectacle, this time marking the 80th anniversary of Japan World War Two defeat, for what China calls “Chinese People’s War of […]

SpaceX Starship feels heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

SpaceX Starship feels heat from 19 Chinese reusable SLV programs

FPI / August 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the evening of Aug. 26, 2025 the tenth test flight for Elon Musk’s massive 5,000 ton SpaceX Starship space launch vehicle (SLV) completed a just-over an hour test flight that achieved its mission agenda, but after two delays, one mechanical on Aug. 24 and one […]

China reveals HQ-29 missile defense system, exposing early U.S. strategic error

China reveals HQ-29 missile defense system, exposing early U.S. strategic error

FPI / August 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the night of Aug. 22-23, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held another practice run for its massive Sept. 3 military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of “Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.” […]

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

China claims successful test of Long March-10 Moon launcher

FPI / August 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle (SLV) […]

Moon race: China reveals lander test as U.S. accelerates plans for nuclear power plant

Moon race: China reveals lander test as U.S. accelerates plans for nuclear power plant

FPI / August 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered test. […]

CCP’s August dream: Trump’s attendance at its coercive Sept. 3 military parade

CCP’s August dream: Trump’s attendance at its coercive Sept. 3 military parade

FPI / August 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the late spring, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been preparing for its major military coercive exercise on Sept. 3rd marking with its massive military parade the 80th anniversary of “the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance […]

Amid nuclear threats, Russia signals intent to continue space cooperation with U.S.

Amid nuclear threats, Russia signals intent to continue space cooperation with U.S.

FPI / August 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia’s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington. President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia’s horrific war against Ukraine an […]

China’s ‘Food Security Law’ paired with apparent attack on U.S. farms called ominous

China’s ‘Food Security Law’ paired with apparent attack on U.S. farms called ominous

FPI / August 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping knows that if he is to wage war he must be able to feed the country’s 1.4 billion people. With that in mind, China’s food security law, which went into effect in 2024, aims for “absolute self-sufficiency.” “Xi has been urging the […]

Multiple Air Force exercises underway in Pacific with focus on China, ‘orbital warfare’

Multiple Air Force exercises underway in Pacific with focus on China, ‘orbital warfare’

FPI / July 25, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Space Force this week is holding its largest ever war games as more than 700 of its personnel, called guardians, take part in drills focusing on “orbital warfare.” The exercises in Hawaii, which include U.S. military and international troops, are called Resolute Space 2025, the Space Force […]

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The enduring myth of Peace-In-Space, good will among men

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The enduring myth of Peace-In-Space, good will among men

FPI / July 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The myth that Peace-in-Space can lead to, or even influence the possibility of Peace-on-Earth rests in part on the historically brief but emotionally enduring impact of the first international mission in space, the July 17, 1975 docking of the United States-Soviet Union Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. While […]